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...Corporation's expressed intent to consider only violations of the Statutes. They presented their case as a series of alleged violations in hopes that the sum of their allegations would establish certain conclusions about the Dean's overall performance. But the Corporation, by distinguishing among the six counts, undercut the professors' overall contention. By narrowly applying the Statutes, the Corporation found the Dean's methods extraordinary but not illegal...
...blew Kissinger's cover, the New York Times followed suit. Many correspondents in the capital, however, agreed with David Kraslow of the Los Angeles Times, who charged the Post with "unprofessional, unethical, cheap journalism." Kraslow, one of the pool reporters who had questioned Kissinger, said that he "felt undercut, that my word had been broken. The Post violated a longstanding rule. Those who use the pool as their agent are bound...
When Philadelphia police broke up a demonstration by black high school students in November 1967, School Superintendent Mark Shedd protested angrily to Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo. In Shedd's view, the cops were unnecessarily rough with the students and had undercut his efforts to negotiate with them about a black studies program. The commissioner strongly disagreed, and as Shedd recaHs their meeting, Rizzo told him: "If it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna get your...
...Daly's argument that an increase in the percentage of women at Harvard "might underutilize our science facilities" etc., this is rather sharply undercut by the Harvard Admissions Department statistic quoted by the Crimson, indicating that a higher percentage of women than men are now coming to Harvard intending to major in science. If the Crimson accurately reported this information. I wonder why it was not available to Mr. Daly...
...because the local military will not be strong enough to carry on alone. President Nixon has promised a new troopwithdrawal announcement next week -based on the assumption that the U.S. will continue to supply the Vietnamese with military hardware. Indeed, the argument goes, the whole Nixon Doctrine would be undercut by ending aid; the President's reduction of the U.S. physical presence overseas is designed to be offset by continuing-even temporarily increased-U.S. military and economic assistance...